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Government 2.0: How Social Media Could Transform Gov PR

Via Media Shift by Mark Drapeau, January 5, 2009 t’s easy to see governments as nameless, faceless monoliths, something impersonal or, even worse, untrustworthy. Much of that is because government culture remains steeped in traditional ideas about public relations and … Continue reading

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Change.gov Takes Questions

Via the New York Times By Michael Falcone You’ve got questions? The Obama transition team might have an answer. A new feature on President-elect Barack Obama’s transition Web site, Change.gov, which allows users to submit questions and then vote on … Continue reading

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Barack Obama, The Social Web, and the Future of User-Generated Governance

Via PR 2.0 What follows is the unedited version of my latest post for TechCrunch, “Is Obama Ready To Be a Two-Way President.” Source: Barack Obama’s flickr stream Where there’s victory, there’s also opportunity… America voted while the entire world … Continue reading

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The Blogging Bureaucrat

Here are a few links to articles put up by Canadian public servant bloggers who are interested in public servant and departmental blogging: General guide for public bloggers, based largely on US laws since little is written here in Canada: … Continue reading

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Government 2.0: Rename Me, Please

Via Mashable November 12, 2008 – 8:19 am PDT – by Mark Drapeau Dr. Mark Drapeau is an Associate Research Fellow directing the Social Software for Security (S3) project at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the … Continue reading

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Change.gov you can believe in?

Via ARS Technica By Julian Sanchez | Published: November 06, 2008 – 05:26PM CT Only time will tell whether President-Elect Barack Obama will be able to deliver on his promise to bring change to government, but the Illinois senator has … Continue reading

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Government 2.0: The Presidential Transition

Via Mashable November 3, 2008 – 8:26 am PDT – by Mark Drapeau 5 Comments Dr. Mark Drapeau is an Associate Research Fellow directing the Social Software for Security (S3) project at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy … Continue reading

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Gartner Says Citizen Social Networks Will Complement, and May Replace, Some Government Functions

Via Gartner nalysts Explore Social Networking Impact on Government at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008, 3-7 November in Cannes, France Egham, UK, October 23, 2008 — By 2011, 70 per cent of social computing deployments in government that achieve business benefits will do … Continue reading

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Government creates own version of Wikipedia

Federal employees will be able to post, modify content on internal program Vito Pilieci, The Ottawa Citizen After years of banning access to blogs, YouTube and Facebook, it seems the federal government has figured out that maybe that Internet thing … Continue reading

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Studies: Social networks exploding, may appear in government

Via ARS Technica By David Chartier | Published: October 26, 2008 – 03:30PM CT The positive merits of social networking have been leveraged in a multitude of ways by consumers, businesses, and other organizations for some time. Now, in light … Continue reading

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